SCOOP-121-M: $109 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Million SE], $2.5M Gtd Day 1 | PokerStars SCOOP 2020

05-31-2020 22:20 UTC-4

Van Brabander Through to Day 2 of SCOOP 121-M: $109 NLHE with Cowen Leading the Way

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 27 : 15,000/30,000, 3,750 ante

After 8 hours and 30 minutes, Day 1 of the SCOOP 121-M: $109 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Million SE] has come to an end with 502 players making it through to Day 2 from a total of 30,809 entrants. This broke the$2,500,000 guarantee and generated a prize pool of $3,080,900. When Day 2 restarts, all the remaining players will get paid at least $363 with the winner walking away with $153,743.

Claiming the Day 1 chip lead is Rob "robc1978" Cowen with 6,605,708, the only player above the 6-million mark. Many of those chips were won during the final hand of the day. Cowen had rivered a full house against the two pair of "devana ONE" when all the chips went in on the river and they got paid. He is followed on the podium by "DemonOfDawn" with 5,189,504 and "Elena20" with 4,801,177.

Also on the top five chipcounts is a familiar face in the live and online poker scene with Charlotte "Sjilot" Van Brabander, who collected a nice pot over a million chips against "lynxeye63" during the last hour of the day when she check-raised on the flop and forced a fold on the turn when she fired a big bet.

With such a huge field to start the day, big names were everywhere you look and some lasted longer than others. Many of felted before the money was reached, such as Benjamin "bencb789" Rolle, Daniel "Cabeça Tilt" Cost, PokerStars streamer Georgina "GJReggie" James, SCOOP champion Mike "goleafsgoeh" Leah, PokerStars Ambassador Ben "Spraggy" Spragg and Ricardo "2Much$4U_08" Lima just to name a few.

Amongst those who finished in the money, but won't be making it to Day 2, are PokerStars Ambassador Tom "MajinBoob" Hayward (795th), Bruno "B.Paulino" Paulino (965th), Dalton "daltonhb" Hobold (1,356th), and Benjamin "BC1989RF" Chalot (2,046th).

Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. EST on Monday, June 1st to finish Level 27 which has a small blind of 15,000, big blind of 30,000, and a running ante of 3,750. All players will be eyeing up many more pay jumps towards the final table. Level duration will remain at 20 minutes each with play continuing until one winner walks away with the title.

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on hand to bring you all the live updates so see you again at 1 p.m. EST!

Tags: Ben Spragg bencb789 Charlotte Van Brabander Daniel Cost Georgina James Mike Leah Ricardo Lima

05-31-2020 21:13 UTC-4

Massive Hand for "DemonOfDawn"

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 26 : 12,500/25,000, 3,250 ante

"DemonOfDawn" opened to 62,500 in the cutoff and "nikito bolso" called in the small blind. "seksoterapia" three-bet to 225,000 i the big blind and "DemonOfDawn" four-bet shoved for 2,923,864. "nikito bolso" called all-in with 1,999,344 and "seksoterapia" let it go.

"nikito bolso":
"DemonOfDawn":

"nikito bolso" was in terrible shape for the double up and found no help on the board while "DemonOfDawn" climbed over the 5-million mark.

Player	Chips	Progress
DemonOfDawn	5,170,958
"seksoterapia"	939,130
"nikito bolso"	Busted

05-31-2020 20:31 UTC-4

Moraes Eliminated in Massive Pot

Gaelle Jaudon

Level 24 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

"TROP_F4CIL3" opened in middle position for 35,200 and "BSNT_LG" moved all-in for 194,144. Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes decided to four-bet in the big blind for 147,413 and "TROP_F4CIL3" shoved for 751,467. Moraes called-all-in.

"BSNT_LG":
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes:
"TROP_F4CIL3":

The flop fell, giving a pair of jacks to "TROP_F4CIL3", who eliminated Moraes and "BSNT_LG" after the and the completed the board.

Player	Chips	Progress
"TROP_F4CIL3"	1,470,112	1,033,232
Rafael "GM_VALTER" Moraes	Busted
"BSNT_LG"	Busted

05-31-2020 11:32 UTC-4

Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 SCOOP 121-M: $109 NLHE

Gaelle Jaudon

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It’s almost time for one of the very last event of the largest MTT series ever! SCOOP 121-M: $109 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Million SE] kicks off at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST).

It’s been a massive series so far, running from April 30 to May 31 and with over $135M guaranteed in total. This event will draw to a close the 11th season of the SCOOP with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to a whopping $25,000, won by Steve "Mr. Tim Caum" O'Dwyer for a nice for $521,598 payday.

SCOOP 121-M: $109 NLHE will be one of the last chance to win a title and a piece of the $2,500,000 guarantee. For just $109, players get 50,000 chips to compete in a progressive KO tournament. Half of each buy-in going to each players bounty and increasing as they knock more players out. With a minimum of $25 being awarded for every player eliminated and bounties growing as the tournament progresses, there should be plenty of action.

Levels 1 to 16 will be 15 minutes long while levels beyond the 16th will be 20 minutes long. Late registration remains open for 3 hours 30 minutes and up to three re-entries will be allowed during that time. There will be a 5-minute break every 55 minutes past the hour and Day 1 will break after 8 hours 30 minutes of play.

All participants get 60 seconds of time bank to use when normal time to act has expired and additional time will be added every few levels.

Day 1 will start with blinds of 125/ 250 and antes of 30. Day 2 action will resume on June 1st, 1PM EST with play continuing until a winner emerges.

With one hour and half to go till it all kicks off, more than 5000 people are already registered, looking for their share of the huge guaranteed prize pool. There's already more than $270k up top for the winner right now.

PokerNews will be here to bring you the action from the first hand to the last.